#psalm 102

Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

A prayer by someone who is suffering, when he is weary and pours out his troubles in Yahweh’s presence.

1 O YAHWEH, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble. Turn your ear toward me. Answer me quickly when I call. 3 My days disappear like smoke. My bones burn like hot coals. 4 My heart is beaten down and withered like grass because I have forgotten about eating. 5 I am nothing but skin and bones because of my loud groans. 6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl living in the ruins. 7 I lie awake. I am like a lonely bird on a rooftop. 8 All day long my enemies insult me. Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse. 9 I eat ashes like bread and my tears are mixed with my drink 10 because of your hostility and anger, because you have picked me up and thrown me away. 11 My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

12 But you, O YAHWEH, remain forever. You are remembered throughout every generation. 13 You will rise and have compassion on Zion, because it is time to grant a favor to it. Indeed, the appointed time has come. 14 Your servants value Zion’s stones, and they pity its rubble. 15 The nations will fear YAHWEH’s name. All the kings of the earth will fear your glory. 16 When YAHWEH builds Zion, he will appear in his glory. 17 He will turn his attention to the prayers of those who have been abandoned. He will not despise their prayers. 18 This will be written down for a future generation so that a people yet to be created may praise YAH: 19 “YAHWEH looked down from his holy place high above. From heaven he looked at the earth. 20 He heard the groans of the prisoners and set free those who were condemned to death. 21 YAHWEH’s name is announced in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem 22 when nations and kingdoms gather to worship YAHWEH.”

23 He has weakened my strength along the way. He has reduced the number of my days. 24 I said, “My EL, don’t take me now in the middle of my life. Your years continue on throughout every generation. 25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth. Even the heavens are the works of your hands. 26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on. They will all wear out like clothing. You will change them like clothes, and they will be thrown away. 27 But you remain the same, and your life will never end. 28 The children of your servants will go on living here. Their descendants will be secure in your presence.” — Psalm 102 | Names of God Bible (NOG) The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group. Cross References: Genesis 1:1; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 3:15; Deuteronomy 26:15; 1 Kings 8:43; Nehemiah 1:6; Job 14:2; Job 19:20; Job 36:26; Psalm 12:5; Psalm 22:22; Psalm 22:24; Psalm 22:30; Psalm 39:5; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 107:10; Psalm 116:19; Psalm 122:6; psalm 146:7; Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:1-2; Zechariah 1:12; Matthew 24:35; Acts 26:11; Romans 15:4; Hebrews 1:12; James 1:11; James 4:14

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn? - Job 34:29

1 O יהוה, hear my prayer, And let my cry come to You.

2 Do not hide Your face from me In the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; In the day I call, answer me speedily.

3 For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.

4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

5 Because of the sound of my sighing My bones have cleaved to my flesh.

6 I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert.

7 I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the house-top.

8 My enemies reproached me all day long, Those who rave against me have sworn against me.

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

10 Because of Your displeasure and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up And thrown me down.

11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

12 But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.

13 You Yourself shall arise And have compassion on Tsiyon, For the time to favour her, The appointed time, has come.

14 For Your servants have been pleased with her stones, And they favour her dust.

15 And the nations shall fear the Name of יהוה, And all the sovereigns of the earth Your esteem,

16 For יהוה shall build up Tsiyon, He shall appear in His esteem.

17 He shall turn unto the prayer of the destitute, And He shall not despise their prayer.

18 This is written for a generation to come, So that a people to be created praise Yah.

19 For He looked down From the height of His set-apart place; From heaven יהוה viewed the earth,

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,

21 To declare the Name of יהוה in Tsiyon, And His praise in Yerushalayim,

22 When peoples gather together, And reigns, to serve יהוה.

23 He has humbled my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.

24 I said, “O my Ěl, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations.

25 “You did found the earth of old, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

26 “They shall perish, but You remain; And all of them grow old like a garment; You change them like a coat, And they are changed.

27 “But You are the same, And Your years have no end.